Paddling away Wilkes-Barre Fats By LEE L. RICHARDS Sports Columnist Some summer thoughts and fantasies: Cruising around Harveys Lake at sundown. Seeing! young- sters on their" way to Little League games in the Back Moun- tain and their enthusiasm about playing. Watching the U.S. Open Golf tournament on‘ TV and wonder- ing what it would be like to play a course setup like they usually are? Reading my Eastern Football magazine from cover to cover. Enjoying the beauty of Water Gap Country Club and its slick greens on a Sunday afternoon. Marveling at-the participants in the local Tri-Athalon and thé gutty nature it takes just to complete the course, let alone win, The smell of people barbequing in the backyard. Practicing golf shots in the early Club’s practice range and seeing a couple of deer meandering around. Spending a relaxing couple of days at picturesque Kingsmill Golf Course and seeing many of the PGA'’s top players in the Busch Golf Classic at Williamsburg, Va. Visiting with various football coaches as they prepare for the upcoming autumn madness. Listening and telling various golf stories during the Potentate’s Golf Tournament. Searching for old golf clubs to add to my collection and swapping putters with different players. Seeing the elation of some of the oldtimers sinking scoring putts during a member-member tourna- ment at Irem. Listening to the Dallas and Lake- Lehman bands practicing on a summer night in preparation for the upcoming grid season. Seeing some of the football play- ers develop into sthtnger and better athletes by dedication to weights over the summer vacation. It’s the time when they can determine their own destiny. Hearing the compliments from various. parents on the level the Back Mountain Little League is directed each summer. Attending local bazaars and wolf- ing down some of the goodies. The view from the second hole at Lehman Golf Course. Ditto the view from Irem’s 14th. Battling my usual mid-summer golf slump. Last year it lasted the There’s no time of the year I enjoy more than summer, espe- cially in the Back Mountain. CLIPBOARD NOTES: USA Today carried a story recently relating to IU Coach Bob Knight, portraying him as a tyrant. It irks me to read stories on Knight of this nature, simply because 90 percent of the people writing them don’t even know him and have no contact whatsoever with him. I guarantee you Knight will not cause any, sort of incident during the Olympics. He’s got too much style for that. Most of the’ scribes point out the incident in Pan Am Games. I know for a fact that Knight was provoked. I got it first-hand from two wit- nesses. I've known Coach Knight for 20 years and know the good side of him and it far out weights the bad- guy image some of the no-necks have created. — Speakers at sports banquets sometimes lose their audience with their presentation. Ed Rutkowski, former Kingston standout, gave one of the best talks I’ve heard in sometime at the recent banquet for the Buffalo area. His popularity is still high from his playing day with the Buffalo Bills. — Dallas resident Jerry Ogurkis won a state mat title under coach Victor. He presented his former coach with a steller photo of the two with PIAA Trophy. Jerry ranks with the best wrestlers I've seen in Wyoming Valley and he’s done a superb job with the youngsters in the Back Mountain Wrestling Club. — Valley West grid coach Jim Fennell informed me at the Victor fete that he’s going to have a ‘very representative’ football team this season. Spartans won their division last year, bowing only to Hanover Area locally and Berwick in the playoffs. — Wyoming Sem Coach Marv Antinnes is delighted to have former Spartan QB Frank Bauer coming in for a year of prep this fall. Bauer is keeping in shape this summer work- ing at the local driving range on the Lake road. — After seeing the initial game of the NBA playoffs, I thought the Lakers would win going away. I didn’t feel the Celtics were quick enough to contain them. Wrong! This Celtic team almost makes me want to watch them, but seeing the walking and fouls still sours me on the NBA. I was once a Celtic fan and I'm elated for K.C. Jones. One further note, Larry Bird is marvel- ous. Zier honored Dallas Post/Ed Campbell The Lake-Lehman School District will operate a variety of recrea- tional-instrumental music activities for students and adults of the Lake- Lehman School District community. The “open” recreational program will feature the following activities: aerobics, physical fitness, tennis, basketball, golf, wrestling, weight training, flag football, field hockey, horseshoes, baseball, softball, wif- fleball, jogging, volleyball, etc. Senior High School facilities will be available through thehours of 9 a.m. to noon, Monday through Thursday, Starting Monday eveing, June 18, the Junior High School Gym will be available from 6 to 9 p.m. for those interested in volleyball, every Monday night only. Beginning June 25, the Weight Training Room in the Senior High School will be available on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings for weight training and physical fitness activities. An elementary wrestling clinic will be .offeredat the Lake-Noxen Elementary School during the week of July 9 through July 11; organized playground activities will also be available at Lake-Noxen that week. Daily activities will be scheduled according to the needs and interests of participants who are participat- ing in the program. Program staff is as follows: Program Director, Rodger Bearde; Recreational Activities, Mark Kirk, Jean Lipski, Ed Lada- mus, Dwight Barbacci, Tony Javer, Sally Galka; Music Staff, John Mil- iauskas, Jonathan Pineno. If you have specific questions about the program, please contact the Program Director, Rodger Bearde at (717) 675-2165, ext. 258. The Idetown Compact Bowling League held its year end banquet SPECIAL NEW MEMBERSHIPS Only $12.50 er year ‘er Expires 12/31/84 E. M. VIDEO Dallas Shopping Center Open Mon. Sat. 10-9 p.m., Sun, 12-5 p.m. recently at the Castle Inn, Dallas. Championship trophies were given to the first place team, the Aries, to the following members: Gloria English, Dottie Kolenkewicz, Bar- bara May, Jack Berti and Charlie Williams, captain. Second place tro- phies went to Dawn Clark, Peggy Boyes, Fran Rauch, Jim Roan, and Walter Rauch, captain of the Fire- birds. taken by a Dallas Post sale. prints. | Phone No. (optional) Trophies for top performance for men went to High average, 164, Dean Doty; High game, 240, Rick Cross; and High series, tied to Hayden Evans and Charlie Wil- liams, 533. Trophies to the women: High average, 148, Connie Doty; High game, 230, Nancy Kozemchak; High series, 554, Delores Cross. New officers for the 84-85 season are: President, Alberta Cross; vice surer, Verna Evans and secretary, Nancy Kozemchak. Any interested bowlers can contact the officers. The season will begin Tuesday, Sep- tember 4th. CYC sets cage camp The Wyoming Valley Catholic ‘Youth Center will conduct its Fifth Annual Summer Basketball Day Clinic and will also hold an exclu- sive Offensive Shooting Basketbala Clinic according to Tom Kosin? Catholic Youth Center Athletic Director. The day clinic will open Monday, July 23 and will run through August 3, three hours a day from 2:30-5:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. The clinic is open for all boys and girls age 9 through 16. All phases of the game will be illustrated and encouraged through participation. The clinic will feature 8’ baskets for the younger participants. Each par- ticipant will receive a clinic T-shirt, clinic handbook, evaluatiion report, and use of the CYC facilities after each session. Trophies will also be available forvarious station champi- ons. The center will also offer an exclusive offensive shooting clinic with only 60 applications being accepted. The clinic will cater to boys and girls in 7th through 12th grade who are sincerely interested in improving the offensive phase of their game. Features of the clinic: a video analysis of each camper, an 8 to 1 ratio of campers to instructors and free use of the CYC facilities. John Quinn, Head Coach of Coughlin High School, will direct both clinics. John has amassed a fine staff of college and high school coaches and former college players, work and experience at summer camps. Staff members that will instruct in one or both camps are Ken Atkins, Head Coach, King’s College, Canio Cianci, Asst. Coach, Univer- sity of Scranton, Jim Atherton, Head Coach, L.C.C.C., Bishop Hoban’s Chet Hine, G.A.R.’s John Hopkins, Tunkhannock’s Tony Kon- ieski, former University of Scranton All-American, Tom Kosin, all-time leading Rishop Hoban scorer and former Dickinson College Player Bill Thornton, King’s College player Ed DeMichele, and also Ron Ulias and Dom Falduto of Pacesetter A.C. For more information or registra- tion contact Tom Kosin at 823-6121 or stop in at 36 S. Washingtn Street, Wilkes-Barre. Father John S. Terry is Director of CYC, a United Way Agency. Parents Club plans tourney The Wilkes-Barre YMCA Wres- tling Parents Club will sponsor a summer elementary wrestling tour- nament on Sunday, June 24, at the King’s College Gymnasium, N. Main St., Wilkes-Barre. Age divisions are as follows: Pee Wee - 6 years and under (38- 55 pounds); Bantam - 7 and 8 years (48-85 pounds); Midget - 9 and 10 years (53-105 pounds); Junior - 11 and 12 years (63-130 pounds). Cut-off date for age limits is May 1. No seventh graders will be allowed to participate. Weigh-ins will be conducted on Saturday, June 23, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. and on Sunday, June 24 from 7 to 8:30 a.m. Walk-ons will be accepted on Saturday but not on Sunday. Fee is $6 fo pre-registered wres- tlers and $7 for walk-ons. Trophies will be awarded to first, second, third and fourth place wrestlers as well as an outstanding wrestler in each age division. : For entry blanks, mail S.A.S.E. t& Danny Harris, 48 Spruce St., Wilkes- Barre Township, Pa., 18702 or call 825-6029 for information. 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